Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unfrozen Caveman Captain
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.23.2003
Two EV suits find their fellow EV suit, who has become infected through the tear in his suit, and subsequently turn him into Alien Brulée. I really think it's time for Chef to rotate the dessert specials.
Loathe-ar, T'Pol, and Hill Person Hoshi run into a clearing and find themselves surrounded by other EV suits. T'Pol shoves Loathe-ar and Hill Person Hoshi behind her and brandishes a gun at the EV suits. There's a fight, T'Pol is knocked away, and the EV suits close in on the two Hill People, blowtorches aimed. Three Starfleet EV suits beam down and quickly fire at all the Blowtorch EV suits. Trip asks if they're okay. "You said you'd never use the transporter again," T'Pol comments. "Believe me, I wish I had a choice," Trip says, and explains the situation with the other vessels. T'Pol convinces Loathe-ar that he and Hill Person Hoshi, who has wrapped herself protectively around her Alpha Alien, will be safer on the ship.
A sh'pod returns to the ship.
Bridge. May-You-Snooze-You-Lose stands up from the Captain's chair to receive Trip's comm. Trip wants Phlox standing by in decon, and orders the ship to go to warp four as soon as they're all in. May-You-Snooze-You-Lose gets into the pilot's seat, and Enterprise takes off. The other two ships follow. Trip walks onto the Bridge, and May-You-Snooze-You-Lose tells him how close the other two ships are. Trip orders the weapons readied and refuses all their calls. Some Rent-a-Redshirt announces that the other ship is charging weapons. Enterprise is hit. Trip sits down before he falls down in the Captain's seat. They're losing hull plating. The other captain hails them again and appears on screen to order them out of warp. "Look," Trip says, "we both want the same thing -- a cure for this virus, right? Our doctor thinks he's found one but he needs a little more time to --" The other captain says he will contain the outbreak whether Trip plans to help him or not. At that moment, the door slides open, and Quantum stumbles onto the Bridge with Phlox at his side and Hoshi following. "Why're you firing at my ship?" Quantum slur-demands. He still has a few facial remnants of Loathe-ar. The other captain reminds him of the infections on his ship. Phlox angrily points out that Quantum and Hoshi are the two people the captain's EV suits almost caramelized on the planet: "As you can see, they're responding quite well to the antivirus I synthesized." The other captain doesn't believe it's possible. "Run scans, see for yourself," Phlox orders. The other captain nods at someone off the viewscreen. "Like I said, he just needed a little more time," Trip tells him, standing next to Quantum. I'm pleased to see that both Quantum and Hoshi stopped to see Mr. Mott on their way up to the Bridge. Trip says they would be glad to share their research with them if they'd reconsider destroying the ship.